Anniversary

Have you got a special anniversary you want to mark? We would love to help you do that in church.

Sometimes people want to celebrate a certain number of years of being married – it doesn’t have to be just the ‘big’ ones of, for example, 10, 25 or 50 years.

The special service you have in mind might include the renewal of your wedding vows, or the blessing of a new ring, or the celebration of a family that now includes children (and grandchildren, great-grandchildren?). Or perhaps it’s just that you want to thank God for the previous years and seek his blessing for the future ones.

There are lots of options and plenty of flexibility. If you would like to talk about it further please call the Rector (01226 752236).

Transcribers needed

We are starting on an exciting new project to create a Burial Ground Management System with the help of Atlantic Geomatics Ltd. Atlantic Geomatics have already created an accurate plan of our churchyard including all headstones and trees. We have now photographed all our burial registers and uploaded them onto the new system. The next action is to transcribe these burial registers into the system so that details can then be matched up headstones and a search facility created. Further enhancements would then follow.

So....we are now need volunteers to transcribe the burial registers. We already have a number of willing volunteers but can always use more. The work can be done anywhere and by anyone so long as they have access to the internet and the ability to type in details. The photographs of the burial register come up on screen together with the boxes to be completed for transcribing. Even if you are reading this in Australia you can still join in.